In just two minutes, share images and videos to Damus using CESS

Recently, the decentralized social application Damus has created a huge social wave in the crypto world. After noticing the release of Damus, CESS shared from the perspective of decentralized cloud storage about the technical support that CESS can provide for decentralized cloud social. In the article "Damus Sparks a Trend: Why Do We Need Decentralized Cloud Storage?", we explored the advantages of CESS as a solution that balances decentralization and cloud storage, providing massive commercial data storage services for various dapps. Today, CESS will continue to share with everyone, focusing on practical functionality, how CESS helps users share and display images and videos on Damus to establish their unique social identity.

Features of Damus

Currently, Damus is still in its initial stage, with relatively simple functions, including basic features such as payments and posting. Common social interactions involve users sharing their Damus ID on other channels to invite friends to follow. For example, after Damus went live, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey publicly shared his Damus ID on Twitter to help promote the Nostr ecosystem.

The most attractive features of this social application for users are:

• Simple registration, no need to provide a phone number, email, or name to create an account
• Information privacy, with end-to-end encryption to prevent content or data leakage
• Programmability, allowing easy integration of bots for automation in life and business
• Encrypted payments, supporting the Lightning Network for cryptocurrency payments
• Anti-censorship, developed based on the decentralized protocol Nostr, making user accounts resistant to censorship

However, as a social application, user-generated content creation and dissemination is a core need and an essential function. But because the Nostr protocol is end-to-end, where relays only broadcast without storing the content itself, Damus cannot directly upload images and videos, requiring users to share via links on Damus.

How to Share Images and Videos on Damus?

In other words, users need to share images and videos through third parties. As a result, the Postimage application, which generates links for images, has also gained attention due to its simplicity, allowing users to share images on Damus in just a few steps. However, a significant drawback is that --- --- Postimage is a centralized application and does not support generating links for other file formats (videos, audio, text, etc.).

At this point, decentralized storage projects emerge as a better choice. Uploading images or videos, generating links, and then sharing them is a very basic capability for any decentralized storage project.

For example, IPFS and decentralized storage projects (such as Filecoin, Arweave, and Crust) can solve the issues of centralized storage and lack of support for other formats found in Postimage. However, another drawback is that --- --- the process of generating file links using the above decentralized storage projects can be quite complex for ordinary users, creating a high barrier to entry and an unfriendly user experience. For instance, users need to learn how to set up nodes or use crypto wallets and assets during the process.

To address the need for users to operate simply while being able to share multiple formats and categories of images/videos like in Web2 social media, while also maintaining the essence of decentralization, the --- --- simplest --- --- decentralized file sharing tool ever --- --- DeShare, developed based on the Cumulus Encrypted Storage System (CESS) decentralized cloud storage test network, has been born!

Compared to Postimage, DeShare is decentralized and supports multiple file formats (images, videos, audio, and text) for storage and link generation; compared to IPFS and other decentralized storage projects' cloud drives, DeShare offers:

• No registration or login required
• No need to use crypto wallets or assets
• Supports mobile uploads and downloads
• Permanent storage

DeShare Operation Steps

Conclusion

I believe that through the operational process, everyone can clearly feel how smooth and simple the operation of DeShare is. This file sharing tool DeShare, developed based on CESS decentralized cloud storage, has advantages such as decentralization, no registration, no need for crypto wallets and assets, support for multiple formats, mobile support, and permanent storage. It can not only help crypto users easily share images/videos on Damus but also support users' needs for uploading, storing, sharing, and downloading in many other application scenarios. Come and experience the CESS decentralized file sharing tool DeShare to share your wonderful life!